Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb
Caherfadda, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Caherfadda
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99226, -9.11544
- SMR number
- CL016-164----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On flat low-lying karst on the W side of NE-SW aligned field wall at the junction where it meets a WNW-ESE aligned field wall and with dense growth to the E. Within an extensive multiperiod field system (CL017-180----).
The wedge tomb consists of two upright stones. The N stone (L 0.8m; Wth 0.3m; max. H 1.2m) is aligned NE-SW and the S stone (L 0.95m; Wth 0.1m; H 1m) located 2m to the S is almost prone and aligned NW-SE. Three stones lying nearby may have been part of the wedge tomb but none of them appears to have been upright. The two smaller stones (L 1m; H 0.1-0.15m) may have been a side-wall which fell to the SE and the larger stone (2m x 1.2m) may have been part of a lintel.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL016-164----_01.jpg View of wedge tomb from N
CL016-164----_02.jpg View of wedge tomb from NW
Compiled by: Mary Tunney and Lynda McCormack
Date of upload: 26 July 2022
Nearby in the register
- Megalithic structureunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.